A few more...

Well, I can't take any credit for these pictures (except that adorable little boy b/t us) because my BFF Karen took them! She's awesome, as you can see!! Obviously, these weren't done in the past couple weeks as there's no snow! She did then right around Halloween and just sent them to me the other day. Ethan was less then a willing participant, especially at the marina around all the "wah-wah"! All he wanted to do was run around and try to get to the "wah-wah"! It was a little trying, but actually the candid photos are my favorites anyway!

That one warm weekend in Nov.....

I just thought I'd share these fun pics I took of Ethan and the dogs when we were enjoying our last warm weekend. And seeing all the snow today, I was really wishing that weather back! I'm not ready for snow yet!!

What do you think??

So I finally decided to actually TRY to get a new background uploaded to my blog today. What a retard I am....it was so stinkin easy!!!! Anyway, what's the word guys!

"CAW"

At least I think that's how to phonetically spell how Ethan says color! He LOVES to color now!! He even knows a lot of colors too! He can correctly pick out Blue ("Bru"), Green ("GEE"), Red, Black, Brown. Orange and Yellow usually, but those two are the ones he gets a little mixed up yet! I'm impressed....I'm sure it's advanced or something, right?? Just kidding, he amazes me every day though! He's also learned the word "poo-poo" and he'll even try to say "stinky poo-poo" when I'm changing a dirty diaper! I think it's cute now, but I'm sure I won't when he announces it in the middle of grocery store or something!! Oh, he says paper too, but it sounds more like "papoo".

He has a cold right now, or is getting another moler - or both! He's just miserable! The first couple nights he got me up EVERY HOUR and then it would take me a while to calm him down, and just about the the time I fell back to sleep, he'd wake up screaming again. I feel alot like I did when he was a newborn...but not NEARLY as bad! Boy, it seems like those days were soooo long ago! I had almost forgotten.....almost!



Well, here he is coloring and drawing on his chalkboard (my awesome Goodwill find!!)

Here's a little video of him saying his colors. The reason I laugh at first, is because right when I hit record, he let out a big belch!!

Lot's to share...

Well, most people already know our latest and greatest news.....DEREK GOT A NEW JOB!!!! We are so excited! This is truly an answer to LOTS of prayers! Derek will now be working for Dan Vos Construction Company in Grand Rapids. This is an AWESOME company, one of the best in Michigan! They are constantly getting very prestigious awards for their work. Derek had the privilege of working with them on many occasions when he was at Gentex. They have been wanting to hire him for months, but as you know the economy hasn't been real condussive to new commercial construction, but Dan Vos is starting to pick up and they're really excited to have Derek on board! Derek has been on cloud 9 ever since! He gave his 2wks notice at his previous job, but really only had enough work for 1 wk, so he wrapped things up there last Friday and has been working on his "Honey Do" list this week! It's been fun having him home, he got a lot done! I'm really glad he had a week to wrap his head around this new chapter he's about to start. This really is his dream job and he SO deserves it! Here's Ethan helping Daddy out the other day (steeling his trim!!)

Daddy, went on his "Man Weekend" this weekend so it's just been me and Ethan since Thursday night! It's been fun actually. It worked out that I had almost the whole week off since I worked last weekend. I've really enjoyed spending one-on-one time with Ethan, although last night I hardly slept b/c I was freaked out with all the wind and creapy sounds in my house! I triple checked all the doors, brought the phone to bed with me and locked my door with me and the dogs in my room with the baby monitor right next to my head! What a freak! Oh well, I finally got some sleep anyway!

Halloween

Ethan was a Froggy for Halloween. We were invited to a kid Halloween party at Rob and Denise's and I was really excited! Ethan, not so much! He actually did good with the costume this year, but there were a lot of kids there and none (except Max) he knew, so he wanted to play at the end of their driveway where noone else was! It was so frustrating! The games were all a little to old for him, but I thought he'd enjoy watching them...nope! Rob and Denise worked so hard on their decorations and little haunted trail and we had to leave before we saw any of it! I was bummed, but Ethan had had enough and why make the entire party listen to him scream! So, we left before the party really got started. I think next year will be much different...if we get invited again!! After we left we debated on stopping at Chris and Ali's, which has been a little Halloween tradition. We decided we couldn't mess with tradition...even though it was really late. When we got there, Ethan turned around and started banging on the door to leave! He'd had enough of people he didn't know! After a couple mins. he warmed up to everyone, especially Brianna (their 2 y/o)! They were watching TV and drinking from their sippy cups together! He did so good, despite not getting to bed until 10pm!!Here's Ethan At Denise's just before we left.

Ethan LOVED carrying his trick-or-treat bucket around, but did NOT want anything it!! It was so cute!

Here we are just before we left for the Brinks!

My little froggy!

Froggy and Daisi!

Always playing "Catch-up"

Once again, I'm behind on my blog! I'm always behind on something it seems! Anyway, the weekend before Halloween, Derek and I went to a Halloween party (a friend of a friend's). My friends wanted to go as the Golden Girls and here we are!

Erin (Dorothy), Karen (Rose), Amber (Sophia) and Shelly (Blanche)

Here's my friend Dave (Amber's hubby) as Andy Warhol (sp?)

What kind of Halloween party would it be without Sara Palin? (Christine)

Kid Rock (Shannon) and Pam Anderson (Derek) even got back together for the event!

That weekend we finally finished carving our pumpkins! I had decorated our porch about a week before in a huge spider web and found some super cute ghost lights to hang. So here's our "scary" decorations this year!